Alberto De Martino

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Alberto De Martino (12 June 1929 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where he worked as a screenwriter, director and dubbing supervisor. De Martino's films as a director specialised in well-crafted knock-offs of Hollywood hit films. These films were specifically created films in Western, horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market. The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist. The Antichrist capitalized on the box-office appeal of The Exorcist (1973) and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws.

Life and career

Alberto De Martino was born on 12 June 1929 in Rome. De Martino was the son of a film make-up artist. He started his career as a child actor.

On attending university, De Martino studied law. Martino returned to a career in cinema working as an editor, screenwriter and assistant director. Martino stated he was encouraged to be a director by Federico Fellini for whom he supervised the dubbing for La Dolce Vita. De Martino was also very active in the field of dubbing, and he was dubbing director for more than 1,500 films.

De Martino was one of the active directors in the Italian genre cinema between the 1960s and mid-1980s; his films spanned different genres, including Spaghetti Western, poliziotteschi, Peplum films and horror. A real life friend of Sergio Leone, he was second unit director in Duck, You Sucker! He was often credited as Martin Herbert.

In 1980, De Martino nearly lost his home when his film The Pumaman failed at the box office. Pumaman was followed by a few more films, concluding his career with Miami Golem.

He died in Rome on 2 June 2015 at the age of 85.

Selected filmography

Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.

Title	Year	Credited as				Notes	Template:Abbr
		Director	Screenwriter	Screen story writer	Other
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal	1937				Template:Yes	Actor as "Son of Scipio"	Template:Sfn
Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete	1960				Template:Yes	Assistant director	Template:Sfn
Template:Sort	1961	Template:Yes	Template:Yes		Template:Yes	producer	Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Gladiators 7	1962		Template:Yes	Template:Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Medusa Against the Son of Hercules	1963	Template:Yes	Template:Yes				Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Template:Sort		Template:Yes					Template:Sfn
Template:Interlanguage link multi		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Gladiators Seven	1964	Template:Yes	Template:Yes				Template:Sfn
Template:Sort	Template:N/a	Template:Yes
100.000 dollari per Ringo	1965	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Heroes of Fort Worth	Template:N/a	Template:Yes
Template:Sort	1966	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Special Mission Lady Chaplin		Template:Yes
Django Shoots First		Template:Yes
Dirty Heroes	1967	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
O.K. Connery		Template:Yes
Bandits in Rome	1968	Template:Yes	Template:Yes				Template:Sfn
Carnal Circuit	1969	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Template:Sort	Template:N/a	Template:Yes
Crime Boss	1972	Template:Yes					Template:Sfn
Template:Sort	Template:N/a	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes			Template:Sfn
Ci risiamo, vero Provvidenza?	Template:N/a	Template:Yes
Counselor at Crime	1973	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes			Template:Sfn
Template:Sort	1974	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Strange Shadows in an Empty Room	1976	Template:Yes					Template:Sfn
Holocaust 2000	Template:N/a	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Template:Sort	1980	Template:Yes		Template:Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Blood Link	1982	Template:Yes		Template:Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Formula for a Murder	1985	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes			Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Miami Golem	Template:N/a	Template:Yes

References

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